The origins of sugar

This activity looks at the way sugar was spread across the world. As such, it looks also at the transatlantic slave trade as a key feature in the history of sugar. This resource doesn’t focus on the transatlantic slave trade specifically. The resource that covers this in more detail is ‘Sugar’s history within the transatlantic slave trade’.

This is the second activity in a series of resources designed around sugar. See the others below:

• Examining sugar using slow looking
• Sugar’s history within the transatlantic slave trade
• Sugar and art through time and across cultures
• Sugar tax: where health and politics meet

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